North Carolina GOP Chair, Billionaire Donor Indicted For Bribery, Wire Fraud

[Priestiality]

The chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, Robin Hayes, has been indicted on charges including wire fraud, bribery and aiding and abetting. Durham businessman and political donor Greg Lindberg, along with two of his associates: John Gray, and John Palermo Jr., were also indicted. Lindberg is the owner of Global Bankers Insurance Group headquartered in Durham, N.C.

The indictment, issued by U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, outlines how the defendants allegedly came up with a scheme "to defraud and to deprive North Carolina and the citizens of North Carolina of their intangible right to the honest services of the commissioner, an elected official, through bribery."

This is me not being shocked at all. Full indictment readable at link.

[Flarelaine]

Wonderful. Add one more to the list of things they accused "liberals" with and then were caught doing.

[Sky High]

Can’t wait for the slap on the wrist. But good to see these fuckers being exposed.

[Somewhatconcerned]

#bothsides

[Deletedaccount1]

Literal nobodies.

[D Luniz]

Literal nobodies.

trying to "cofefee boy" the chair of the whole state's branch of the GOP

cant even "A for effort that"

Edit: the background on the "nobody" Robin Hayes

represented North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009
Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in 1996
chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party from 2011 to 2013, and again starting on April 30, 2016.

[cubby]

Can’t wait for the slap on the wrist. But good to see these fuckers being exposed.

Those are pretty serious charges. Slap on the wrist might not fly. Bribery and aiding and abetting are low ball ones, but wire fraud usually is a no-brainer re evidence. And they are federal charges, which means no state politics interference. Odd that Trump's DoJ is doing this though.

[Ripster42]

Those are pretty serious charges. Slap on the wrist might not fly. Bribery and aiding and abetting are low ball ones, but wire fraud usually is a no-brainer re evidence. And they are federal charges, which means no state politics interference. Odd that Trump's DoJ is doing this though.

It also carries a potential 20 year max sentence.

Edit, The indictment... lol. Paraphrasing gray, "This totally isn't to influence your decision, but if you bury my troubles with the NCDOI I'll give you at least a million."

[D Luniz]

Those are pretty serious charges. Slap on the wrist might not fly. Bribery and aiding and abetting are low ball ones, but wire fraud usually is a no-brainer re evidence. And they are federal charges, which means no state politics interference. Odd that Trump's DoJ is doing this though.

not really, its really hard to bury cases of crime at the federal level, now you can lw ball the sentence, but just avoiding a trial and charges brings to much shit.

[cubby]

not really, its really hard to bury cases of crime at the federal level, now you can lw ball the sentence, but just avoiding a trial and charges brings to much shit.

But typically prosecutors throw the book during the indictment, and then plead down if extenuating circumstances, sometimes to no jail when it's a rich/political figure. But wire fraud is almost objective when it comes to trial, the evidence is either there or not.

I'm just saying that I don't think this guy is going to be able to weasel out of avoiding jail time. I think we're actually agreeing, lol.

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It also carries a potential 20 year max sentence.

Edit, The indictment... lol. Paraphrasing gray, "This totally isn't to influence your decision, but if you bury my troubles with the NCDOI I'll give you at least a million."

Yeah, wire fraud is a scary thing to be indicted on. Huge sentence and it won't just go away like local crimes.

Lol re the phrasing.

[Ivanstone]

Literal nobodies.

How does a billionaire count as a nobody?

Furthermore, NC GOP are responsible for one of the worst gerrymanders in the US and therefore have an outsized effect on federal politics.